Giroux, who also had an assist, signed a three-year, $19.5 million contract ($6.5 million average annual value) with Ottawa on July 13.
Alex DeBrincat and Shane Pinto also each had a goal and an assist, and Mathieu Joseph had two assists for the Senators. Anton Forsberg made 21 saves.
Nick Suzuki had two assists in his preseason debut, and Sam Montembeault made 18 saves for the Canadiens, who have lost their first six preseason games (0-5-1).
DeBrincat gave Ottawa a 1-0 lead at 3:13 of the first period on the power play, a one-timer from Giroux for his third preseason goal.
Giroux extended it to 2-0 at 5:52 of the second period, tapping in a pass from DeBrincat.
Joel Armia cut it to 2-1 at 8:20, and David Savard scored 44 seconds later at 9:04 to tie it 2-2.
Tyler Motte scored his third goal of this preseason to give the Senators a 3-2 lead at 11:10, and Pinto restored the two-goal lead for the Senators with his fourth preseason goal at 18:53.
Cole Caufield cut it to 4-3 on the power play at 14:57 of the third period, but Brady Tkachuk scored his first goal of the preseason 1:11 later at 16:08 to give Ottawa a 5-3 lead.
Arber Xhekaj had his wrist shot go off Joseph’s hand at 16:36 for the 5-4 final.
Blues 4, Wild 2:Pavel Buchnevich had a goal and an assist for the St. Louis Blues in a 4-2 win against the Minnesota Wild at Enterprise Center in St. Louis.
Jordan Binnington stopped all 11 shots he faced in the first two periods for the Blues. Joel Hofer made 15 saves in relief.
Tyson Jost and Mason Shaw each had a goal and an assist for the Wild. Filip Gustavsson made 23 saves.
Buchnevich scored on a one-timer from the right circle 1:05 into the first period to give St. Louis a 1-0 lead.
Jake Neighbours’ power-play goal from the left circle made it 2-0 at 11:42.
Nathan Walker scored from the slot to make it 3-0 at 10:18 of the second period.
Shaw cut it to 3-1 on a rebound at 6:58 of the third period, but Klim Kostin scored at 13:57 for the Blues for a 4-1 lead.
Jost scored at 19:19 for the 4-2 final.
Islanders 4, Flyers 3 (OT): Noah Dobson scored with eight seconds left in overtime to give the New York Islanders a 4-3 win against the Philadelphia Flyers at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
Josh Bailey had a goal and two assists, and Adam Pelech had two assists for the Islanders, who agreed to an eight-year contract with center Mathew Barzal earlier Tuesday. Ilya Sorokin made 30 saves.
Scott Laughton had a goal and an assist, and Samuel Ersson saved all 15 shots he faced in 29:17 for the Flyers in their final preseason game (1-4-1). Troy Grosenick made 14 saves in relief.
Laughton scored on a short-handed breakaway at 2:09 of the second period to give Philadelphia a 1-0 lead.
Bailey tied it 1-1 with a power-play goal at 16:13, and Casey Cizikas scored short-handed at 18:22 to make it 2-1.
Owen Tippett scored at 5:05 of the third period to tie it 2-2, and Tanner Laczynski put the Flyers in front 3-2 at 8:53.
Anders Lee tied it 3-3 for the Islanders at 12:19.
Sabres 4, Hurricanes 2:Tage Thompson and Dylan Cozens each had a goal and an assist for the Buffalo Sabres in a 4-2 win against the Carolina Hurricanes at KeyBank Center in Buffalo.
Vinnie Hinostroza and JJ Peterka scored, and Craig Anderson made 23 saves for Buffalo.
Jamieson Rees and Malte Stromwall scored, and Pyotr Kochetkov made 26 saves for Carolina in its preseason finale (4-1-0).
The Sabres led 3-0 after the first period.
Hinostroza made it 1-0 at 6:59 on Buffalo’s 10th straight shot to start the game.
Thompson skated around Hurricanes defenseman Ethan Bear and scored over Kochetkov’s shoulder to make it 2-0 at 10:52.
Cozens pushed the lead to 3-0 at 18:16 when he intercepted a drop pass in his own zone and scored on a short-handed breakaway.
Rees cut it to 3-1 at 1:45 of the third period, and Stromwall scored 19 seconds later at 2:04 to pull Carolina within 3-2 before Peterka scored into an empty net at 18:40 for the 4-2 final.
Sabres forward Kyle Okposo sustained an upper-body injury in the second period and is not expected to skate for a few days, according to coach Don Granato.
Hurricanes defenseman Dylan Coghlan left the game in the first period with a lower-body injury.
Sharks 3, Eisbaren Berlin 1: Steven Lorentz scored the go-ahead goal for the San Jose Sharks in a 3-1 win against Eisbaren Berlin in the NHL Global Series Challenge at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin.
Tomas Hert scored for the Sharks, and James Reimer made nine saves in 31:25. He was replaced by Kaapo Kahkonen, who made nine saves.
Giovanni Fiore scored, and Tobias Ancicka stopped all 21 shots he faced for Eisbaren in 30:01 before he was replaced by Juho Markkanen, who allowed three goals on 15 shots.
Fiore gave Eisbaren a 1-0 lead at 12:10 of the second period with a shot from just outside the left circle.
Hertl tied the game 1-1 at 17:06 of the second period off a give-and-go with Timo Meier, scoring in front of the net. Lorentz gave the Sharks a 2-1 lead scoring 40 seconds later at 17:46, tipping in a shot from Erik Karlsson.
Luke Kunin increased the lead to 3-1 with a short-handed goal at 11:56 of the third period.
The Sharks open the regular season against the Nashville Predators in Prague on Friday and Saturday as part of the 2022 NHL Global Series (2 p.m. ET; NHLN, NBCSCA, BSSO).
Ducks 5, Kings 4:Derek Grant had a goal and three assists for the Anaheim Ducks in a 5-4 win against the Los Angeles Kings at Honda Center in Anaheim.
Max Jones scored twice, Pavol Regenda had a goal and two assists, and John Klingberg had two assists for the Ducks. Anthony Stolarz made 32 saves
Gabriel Vilardi scored two goals, and Cal Petersen made 27 saves for the Kings.
Vilardi gave Los Angeles a 1-0 lead at 11:06 of the first period on the power play, knocking in a rebound.
Grant tied it 1-1 at 13:56 when his shot deflected off the stick of Kings defenseman Jordan Spence.
Vilardi scored his second goal at 2:16 of the second period to give Los Angeles a 2-1 lead, and Arthur Kaliyev scored 33 seconds later with a quick shot from the right circle at 2:49 to extend it to 3-1.
Jones cut it to 3-2 at 4:09 after his slap shot went in off Kings forward Carl Grundstrom. Tobias Bjornfot restored the two-goal lead for Los Angeles at 7:47 from the left circle.
Jones scored his second goal off a no-look, between-the-legs backhand pass from Grant to cut it to 4-3 at 14:44.
Regenda tied it 4-4 at 16:48 with his third goal of the preseason. Frank Vatrano scored 51 seconds into the third period on the power play for the 5-4 final.
Golden Knights 4, Coyotes 3: Adin Hill made 50 saves for the Vegas Golden Knights in a 4-3 win against the Arizona Coyotes at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Arizona outshot Vegas 53-28, including 28-5 in the second period when Hill made 26 saves.
William Karlsson gave the Golden Knights a 4-3 lead from the right circle at 18:02 of the third period.
Zachary Hayes scored two goals, and Michael Amadio had three assists for Vegas.
Barrett Hayton had a goal and two assists, and Jonas Johansson made 24 saves for Arizona.
Hayes gave the Golden Knights a 1-0 lead at 8:53 of the first period and made it 2-0 at 13:57, each on an assist from Amadio.
Matias Maccelli cut it to 2-1 at 4:19 of the second period on a rebound at the right post before Hayton tied it 2-2 at 6:01 when the puck deflected off his skate on the rebound of a shot by Dylan Guenther.
Pavel Dorofeyev gave the Golden Knights a 3-2 lead, scoring from the slot off a pass by Sakari Manninen at 12:06 of the third. Alex Chiasson tied it 3-3 on the power-play at 17:44 with the Coyotes playing 6-on-4 after pulling Johansson.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Restricted free agent forward Isaac Okoro has agreed to re-sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers on a three-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Okoro’s new deal is worth $38 million, according to the person who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the contract has not been signed or announced by the team.
ESPN.com first reported the agreement, citing Okoro’s representation.
The fifth overall pick in the 2020 NBA draft, Okoro is Cleveland’s best perimeter defender, often drawing the assignment of guarding the opponent’s top scorer. Okoro also has worked to improve his offensive game.
The 23-year-old averaged 9.4 points and 3.0 rebounds in 69 games — 42 starts — last season for the Cavs, who beat Orlando in the opening round of the playoffs before losing to eventual champion Boston.
Okoro shot a career-best 39% on 3-pointers, forcing teams to come out and guard him.
His agreement caps an extraordinarily busy summer for the Cavs that began with coach J.B. Bickerstaff being fired and replaced by Kenny Atkinson. All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell signed a three-year, $150 million extension in July, ending months of speculation that he wanted out of Cleveland.
Also, power forward Evan Mobley signed a five-year, $224 deal and center Jarrett Allen signed a three-year, $91 million extension.
GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Canada’s Marina Stakusic fell 6-4, 6-3 to Poland’s Magdalena Frech in the quarterfinals of the Guadalajara Open tennis tournament on Friday.
The 19-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., won 61 per cent of her first-serve points and broke on just one of her six opportunities.
Stakusic had upset top-seeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (0) on Thursday night to advance.
In the opening round, Stakusic defeated Slovakia’s Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 6-2, 6-4 on Tuesday.
The fifth-seeded Frech won 62 per cent of her first-serve points and converted on three of her nine break point opportunities.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 13, 2024.
TORONTO – Alejandro Kirk’s long single with the bases loaded provided the Toronto Blue Jays with a walk-off 4-3 win in the 11th inning of their series opener against the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday.
With the Cardinals outfield in, Kirk drove a shot off the base of the left-field wall to give the Blue Jays (70-78) their fourth win in 11 outings and halt the Cardinals’ (74-73) two-game win streak before 30,380 at Rogers Centre.
Kirk enjoyed a two-hit, two-RBI outing.
Erik Swanson (2-2) pitched a perfect 11th inning for the win, while Cardinals reliever Ryan Fernandez (1-5) took the loss.
Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman enjoyed a seven-inning, 104-pitch outing. He surrendered his two runs on nine hits and two walks and fanned only two Cardinals.
He gave way to reliever Genesis Cabrera, who gave up a one-out homer to Thomas Saggese, his first in 2024, that tied the game in the eighth.
The Cardinals started swiftly with four straight singles to open the game. But they exited the first inning with only two runs on an RBI single to centre from Nolan Arendao and a fielder’s choice from Saggese.
Gausman required 28 pitches to escape the first inning but settled down to allow his teammates to snatch the lead in the fourth.
He also deftly pitched out of threats from the visitors in the fifth, sixth and seventh thanks to some solid defence, including Will Wagner’s diving stop, which led to a double play to end the fifth inning.
George Springer led off with a walk and stole second base. He advanced to third on Nathan Lukes’s single and scored when Vladimir Guerrero Jr. knocked in his 95th run with a double off the left-field wall.
Lukes scored on a sacrifice fly to left field from Spencer Horwitz. Guerrero touched home on Kirk’s two-out single to right.
In the ninth, Guerrero made a critical diving catch on an Arenado grounder to throw out the Cardinals’ infielder, with reliever Tommy Nance covering first. The defensive gem ended the inning with a runner on second base.
St. Louis starter Erick Fedde faced the minimum night batters in the first three innings thanks to a pair of double plays. He lasted five innings, giving up three runs on six hits and a walk with three strikeouts.
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Toronto ace Jose Berrios (15-9) will start the second of the three-game series on Saturday. He has a six-game win streak.
The Cardinals will counter with righty Kyle Gibson (8-6).
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 13, 2024.
